Buttering device.



S. SINGLETON. BUTTERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 2a. IsIs.

1,260,822. l I Patented Mar.26,1918.

sali/.mn sINGLE'roN, or ATLANTA, esonera.

' BUTTERING DEVICE.

i ,aeasaa To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMEL SINGLETON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, haveinventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Buttering Devices; and ldo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

llhis invention relates to bread, pastries, crackers, and the like; andmore particularly it is a device adapted for holding an article such asa slice of bread, a wafhe, a wafer, or a cracker and buttering the sameor supplying it with a coating of similar materi al. l have employed thedevice mainly in making peanut butter sandwiches and will so describeit, but it is quite clear that it could be shaped and used for holding avariety oi' articles or slices while the same were coated.

The following specification sets forth the preferred construction anduses of this device reference being had to the drawings wherein- Figurel is a perspective viewV showing this device in use. 1

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the simplest 'orm of theholding implement.

Fig. 3 is a similar section through a slightly dierent forni of theholder, showing it in use with the spreader.

Fig. i is a sectional view of a sandwich, above which in dotted lines isshown an amplied form of the frame.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a holding implement with its frameshaped to receive a slice of bread.

This device may well be made of metal,

preferably aluminum for the sake of' lightness and cleanliness, and itcomprises a holder and a spreader. The former con sists of a frame and ahandle which for sake of cheapness and simplicity `may be cast integral.Throughout the drawings the frame is designated by the numeral 1 and thehandle by the numeral 9. where it projects radially from the frame, butwhen it is made in the shape of two rods 4 as seen in Fig. 5 their outerends maybe connected by a handhold 3. I may here say that the latter inthis view is nearly rectangular so that it can be used over a slice ofbread of the ordinary shape, but elsewhere in the drawings theSpecification of Letters Patent. Patented lililil. 26, i918.

Application led January 2S, 1916.

Serial No. 74,95%.

trame is shown as round. Specifically the trame is an upright ring orband 6 with an inturned flange 7 at its upper end as best seen in Fig.2. in this view the angle S between these elements is rather abrupt,buta curve 9 unites their inner faces in Fig. 3. ln F a the ring 16 isquite deep, but in all views the flange 4 is quite narrow. ihe handlemay be cast integral with the ring 6 in a neck at the point l() as shownin Fig. l, and this handle is shaped so that it may be grasped by thehand indicated at H.

ln the use of this device for making peanut butter sandwiches byinterposing a lay-er of butter between wafers or crackers C, one of thelatter is laid upon a iiat surface such as a table T as seen in l, thehandle 2 is taken in the .lett hand and the ring 6 passed over thecracker as best seen in Fig. and the whole implement: borne down ontothe table and held there. T he ring now incloscs the cracker andthelange 'l' rests thereon-yet the operators hand need not have touchedit. Next a substance such as peanut butter B is placed within theopening in the flange aud on the cracker C, and 'finally a spreader iuthe form of another implement such as a knife blade K is grasped by itshandle 1 3 and its blade wiped il S across the flange so that surplusbutter is ref moved and a hlm er layer L the thickness of the flange 7remains The holder and the buttered cracker are now moved to the edge ofthe table so that the tip oic the handle may be depressed to raise itstraine olia of the cracker-yet without touching the latter; or, if theforni of' Fig. 5 has been used where the handhole 3 overlies the edge ofthe table while the hz'uidle-arnis 4i lie flat thereon, such hand-holdis depressed with the same result. Another cracker is then placed on thebutter layer L as seen in Fig. 4:, andan ordinary sandwich is therebycompleted; although it is obvious that a plurality of crackers andlayers might be built or stacked up in the same manner by repeating theper face, and the opening within the flange coacts with the exposedupper face of the cracker to produce a cup-shaped receptacle forreceiving the plastic. v'Even if the latter should be quite soft, ascream cheese or the like, this receptacle would confine it while it isbeing spread, the size of the ring and the thickness of the flange wouldlimit the amount of plastic possible to leave on the cracker when theknife or spreader was wiped across it, and finally when the holder isremoved it will be found that there is none of the plastic around theextreme edge of the upper face-hence when another cracker is placed onthe plastic and pressed down, little or nothing will ooze out around theedges.

lfihile ll have used and described this device as intended for use inmaking peanut butter crackersandwiches, it is obvious that is could beotherwise employed. lt might be used for making bread sandwiches or evenfor buttering bread, if the frame l were given the proper shape as shownin Fig. V5; but also in that case l would retain the angular dispositionof the ring G and flange 7 as shown where the frame in this view isbroken away. l have also made use of this view to show that I am notlimited to a single handle as elsewhere indicated by the numeral 2, andin fact I might employ a plurality of handles if desired, but always lprefer that the neck and the handle or handles shall stand within theplane of the frame s0 that the holder may be laid flat on the table orbase and the cracker tor the like, as possibly soft cake) shall not becrushed. Often the article C is quite soft as has been suggested, and Iprefer that the ring shall entirely surround it and rest at its loweredge upon the table so that the pressure of the spreader upon the flangewill not be imparted to the article C. lf said article should stickwithin the ring when the latter is raised from the table, it can betapped slightly on the edge of the table by inclining the entire holderso that the ring is above the table top and the handle is beiow'theplane of said top and beyond the edge of theA table, and the neck l0 isuseful for this purpose. The ring could be made wider for the purposeabove suggested, or when the article is thicker than an ordinary crackeror wafer. The flange could be made wider and therefore the openingwithin it'smaller if it were desired to have the plastic materialterminate at a farther distance from the edge, and this flange could bemade thicker or thinner according to whether it was desired that thecoating 0r layer L of plastic should be thick or thin.

What l claim is:

l. rlhe herein described device for applying a plastic layer tocrackers, cakes, etc., including a holder and a spreader, the formercomprising a mold having in one face a pocket to receive the cracker tobe coated and on the other side a coincident chamber closed at one endby an emplaced cracker and of less area so that the cracker is coveredat its edge, the holder provided with a handle extending therefrom atone side; the spreader comprising a scraper slidably removable acrossthe filling chamber and bearing upon the holder surface to smooth thefilling flush with the mold top surface.

2. The herein described culinary hand tool for holding crackers and thelike on a plane support while they are being buttered, the sameconsisting of a fiat ring of l.-

' shaped cross section and Vdepth to Wholly inclose the cracker lyingupon this plane support, the inner periphery of the ring defining anarea smaller than that of said cracker, and a handle connected to theside of the ring and having one side in the plane of the bottom of therecessed sideV of the ring, the inturned flange of the ring forming amold chamber in which a layer of plastic may be compressed flush withthe top of the holder.

ln testimony whereof I affix my signature.

SAMEL SNGLETON.

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